With Congressional approval still at near-record lows, it seems a Minnesota town has found the solution to the human problem: they just elected a dog mayor.

Enough people in the small town of Cormorant wrote in "Duke"—a 7-year-old, town-roaming Great Pyrenees—or him to be elected mayor.

The town's mayor is elected each year by ballot. Townsfolk (about 12 of them in total) write any name they want on a slip of paper and, well, there you go.

Minnesota is apparently the most ridiculous place to be elected mayor. The town of Dorset's two term mayor (who was elected in the same name-from-a-hat fashion) was unseated by a 16-year-old this year—a hard thing to deal with at the ripe age of five.

It's also not the first time folks have expressed a preference for political animals over people. A Maine Coon cat that ran for senate in Virginia in 2012, and got about 7,000 votes. Other ridiculous elected mayors across the United States have included a black lab and a goat.

Don't start printing campaign signs for your girlfriend's cat yet, though. It should be noted that in most cases animals are elected to purely ceremonial positions. Usually the towns are unincorporated and that leads to a bit of whimsy. It's not like they're deciding policy, though apparently he apparently has a hand—er—.

That makes him more effective than about 100% of federal-level politicians. And let's face it: At this point, a dog is no more or less ridiculous of an authority figure than Rob Ford, or the people running the Ferguson Police Department.